- Xin Xin (panda)
Xin Xin is a female
giant panda that lives in theChapultepec Zoo inMexico City . "Xin Xin" ("hope" in Chinese) was conceived viaartificial insemination and was born in the Zoo on1 July 1990 . Her mother is Tohui (she died16 November 1993 ) and her father is Chia Chia from theLondon Zoo (died in Mexico on October 13, 1991) [ [http://giantpanda.htmlplanet.com/catalog.html Giant Pandas from the past, htmlplanet.com] ] .Xin Xin is one of only three giant pandas in the Americas, outside of the United States. She is the youngest of the Mexican pandas. Xin Xin can be visited for free during normal Zoo hours.
Xin Xin is artificially inseminated annually with sperm from Chinese panda Ling-Ling as part of a continuing effort to breed pandas in Mexico. [ [http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/May03%201B.htm Mexico zoo anxiously tries breeding giant pandas, Utusan Express, 1 May 2003] ] Mexico's Chapultepec Zoo has had one of the most successful panda-breeding programs outside of China, with a total of eight giant pandas conceived in the zoo since the first pandas arrived in Mexico in 1975. This has been attributed by some to the Zoo's 7300 ft. altitude, similar to the pandas' native habitat in
Sichuan ,China . [ [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/13/japan.panda/index.html 'Mission impossible' for Japan stud panda, CNN.com, November 13, 2001] ]Chinese Xin Xin
Xin Xin is also the name of a panda which was born in China on August 6, 2005. [ [http://pandafans.org/blog/index.php/2006/08/09/panda-cub-xin-xins-birthday-party/ Panda cub Xin Xin’s birthday party, pandafans.org, 8/9/2006] ]
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